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The golden age of British Airways (before the strikes and £5 sandwiches)

BOAC offered flights to Australia from 1949. But it was a long old journey. A 1955 service to Sydney would have taken four days and included stops in Zürich, Beirut, Jinnah, Kolkata, Singapore, Jakarta and Darwin.

Today BA flies to the Aussie port in just over 22 hours with a stopover in Singapore or Hong Kong.